Hee. I missed out on most of the Luke and Laura story and all of the Todd backstory on OLTL (caught that later in flashback). (Found the L/L story to be a bit over the top and Geary to be sleazy up until the 1990s - this was in part influenced by my mother who really hated it and would jump to it on occassion to see what the hype was about, then jump away in disgust. She'd recap the soaps when I got home from school - we were amongst the last to get VCR's and the last to figure out how to use them.) I didn't really start watching GH until the Sony era, or the mid-80s, early 90s. My mother tuned in on occassion during the period prior to that - which is how I know the back-story. (My mother is a walking encyclopedia of old tv and film and book lore. And she's watched just about every daytime soap on tv, with the exception of maybe Passions. )
Childhood? It was Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Another World, Texas (spin-off from Another World), Capitol, Edge of Night, Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives (it was better in the 70s and early 80s, before Roman came aboard) and briefly The Doctors (Kathleen Turner and Alec Baldwin were on it but that was the early 70s).
Adolescence (80's)? As the World Turns (ATWT, Guiding Light, Days, Another World (got cancelled along with Texas and Capitol and Ryans Hope and Edge of Night), briefly The City (also cancelled), and for a bit GH (off and on) also All My Children (during the height of the whole Tad/Dixie saga).
20s (80's-90's)? ATWT, GL, GH, ALL My Children, (in Australia - East Enders, and Carson's Law)
30's (90's-00's)? OLTL, GH, All My Children
Now? Just GH.
So, I caught the whole Luke rapes Laura bit from Lucky's perspective (great storyline.) Only know Rick Springfield from his music and later years on GH as Patrick's dad. Vaguely remember Demi Moore. And remember Maurice Bernard (Sonny) as a sympathetic gangster on The City.
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Date: 2010-07-30 04:21 pm (UTC)until the Sony era, or the mid-80s, early 90s. My mother tuned in on occassion during the period prior to that - which is how I know the back-story. (My mother is a walking encyclopedia of old tv and film and book lore. And she's watched just about every daytime soap on tv, with the exception of maybe Passions. )
Childhood? It was Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Another World, Texas (spin-off from Another World), Capitol, Edge of Night,
Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives (it was better in the 70s and early 80s, before Roman came aboard) and briefly The Doctors (Kathleen Turner and Alec Baldwin were on it but that was the early 70s).
Adolescence (80's)? As the World Turns (ATWT, Guiding Light, Days, Another World (got cancelled along with Texas and Capitol and Ryans Hope and Edge of Night), briefly The City (also cancelled), and for a bit GH (off and on)
also All My Children (during the height of the whole Tad/Dixie saga).
20s (80's-90's)? ATWT, GL, GH, ALL My Children, (in Australia - East Enders, and Carson's Law)
30's (90's-00's)? OLTL, GH, All My Children
Now? Just GH.
So, I caught the whole Luke rapes Laura bit from Lucky's perspective (great storyline.)
Only know Rick Springfield from his music and later years on GH as Patrick's dad. Vaguely remember Demi Moore. And remember Maurice Bernard (Sonny) as a sympathetic gangster on The City.